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Ali Akbar

DevOps Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States9 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in penetration testing and threat modeling.
  • Developed security solutions for major tech companies.
  • Finalist in National Programming League in India.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and Software Engineering expert with a focus on application security.

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SolarisAlgorithmsData StructuresNetwork SecuritySoftware DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)JIRAApache AntEthical HackingWeb Application Security AssessmentProgramming

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<script>alert(1)</script> Looking for Full-Time opportunities starting May 2019 in the Cybersecurity/Software Engineering field. I love to do penetration testing and threat modeling. Currently learning as much as I can about Network, Information and Application Security. Also understanding OWASP Top 10. Software/Security Engineer with hands-on expertise in: • Languages: Java, C++, C, D, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, php, mySQL • Technologies: Security Domain - Burp, Metasploit, WireShark, Nmap, sqlmap, nikto, Nessus, Qualys, Checkmarx, Coverity, SSL/TLS, PKI, CSP, OAuth, Kerberos Software Engineering Domain - NPM, Maven, Git, Jenkins, Zettabyte File System, Android Development, Unix Shell Scripting National Programming League Finalist [India]

Experience

9 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
2 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Netflix

Application Security Engineer

Sep 2022Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · Los Gatos, California, United States

  • ● Part of the Application Security Reviews and Assessments Team

Dropbox

2 roles

Security Engineer 3

Promoted

Aug 2021Sep 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

Security Engineer 2

Aug 2019Aug 2021 · 2 yrs

  • HelloSign Team
  • Working on improving the security architecture of HelloSign.

Nvidia

Cloud Security Intern

Jan 2019Apr 2019 · 3 mos · Santa Clara, California

  • ● Responsible for the development of a public key infrastructure for Kubernetes clients using X.509 client certificates. Using HashiCorp’s Vault for secret storage and public key endpoint. When complete the project would allow clients to authenticate themselves to the GPU Cloud server using X.509 certificates.

Salesforce

Product Security Summer Intern

May 2018Aug 2018 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • ● Developed an application which scans Third Party Products (3PP) for security vulnerabilities. It can clone from various git locations, pull all the dependencies by using either Maven or NPM, and then scan them using Qualys Nexus IQ Scanner. Used the tool to scan certain Salesforce internal source code.
  • ● Black/white-box testing and suggesting mitigation strategies to customers. Vulnerabilities found include privilege escalation, RCE, Stored XSS, CSRF, authentication, authorization, open ports, password management, insecure session cookie handling, insecure handling of sensitive data and many more.
  • ● Secured 8th position in internal CTF challenge.
  • ● Designed a secure infrastructure on Amazon Web Services using S3 buckets.

Oracle india pvt. ltd

Associate Software Engineer

Jun 2015Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • ● Worked on Zettabyte File System as a part of Solaris and SPARC Software Systems Engineering Team.
  • ● Decreased latency times during File Read/Write and improved performance of ZFS I/O.
  • ● Worked on analyzing crash dumps using the Solaris Modular Debugger to root cause critical failures.
  • ● Wrote D Scripts to analyze performance of ZFS during re-silvering.
  • Core technical skills: C, C++, D Scripting, Unix scripting, Mercurial, Solaris admin, Operating Systems.

Hp

Summer Intern

Jun 2014Jul 2014 · 1 mo · Lucknow Area, India

  • ● Developed an Android application to record employee grievances for the local office.

Education

University of Florida

Masters in Science — Computer and Information Sciences

Jan 2017Jan 2019

Manipal Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science

Jan 2011Jan 2015

City Montessori School

High School Grade 93.2% in 10th and 88.3% in 12th — Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations

Jan 1996Jan 2010

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